Kentucky Federal Judge Denies Church Plan Counterclaim In ERISA Plan Dispute

Mealey's (April 9, 2018, 12:11 PM EDT) -- COVINGTON, Ky. — A Kentucky federal judge on April 4 dismissed an employee pension plan fiduciary’s counterclaim that the plan falls under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act’s “church plan” exemption, finding that the counterclaim served no purpose, and narrowed the claims against individual former members of the committee named as the fiduciary, ruling that the plan participants may proceed with just two claims against them in their proposed class action complaint (Dolores Jane Boden, et al. v. St. Elizabeth Medical Center, Inc., et al., No. 16-49, E.D. Ky., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 57434)....